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ELKHART -- EnviroFest 2012 featuring entertainment, live animal shows and more will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at Wellfield Botanic Gardens, 1011 N. Main St. The Unraveling String Band will perform the entire evening. At 6 and 8 p.m. the Creepy Crawley Zoo will have live animal shows. Demonstrations during the event will include wood sculpting, soap making by Old Fort Soaps and more. There will be environmental displays, eco-friendly crafts, local food vendors and recycled art. Participants can enter the eco-raffle.

Early on the morning of Dec. 12, 1998, Elkhart police received reports of a shooting at the VFW Post at 1318 S. Sixth St. While en route, police received additional information that several fights had broken out at the location. When they arrived, officers found one shooting victim with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers learned that a second shooting victim, Ronnie Cantrell, had been shot while sitting in a vehicle. Ronnie had been driven to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds.

In the early morning on Dec. 21, 2001, 30-year-old Bernard Cockerham was confronted by an unknown suspect inside his home at 2656 Morton Street in Elkhart. There was evidence of forced entry and several shots fired. Cockerham was shot once in each leg. A passer-by noticed Cockerham's car partly blocking the street in front of his house, and found him sitting on the street leaning back on his driver's seat. Police believe he was trying to drive himself to a hospital, but a bullet struck a major artery and he bled to death.

Police are trying to figure out who shot a man in an Elkhart parking lot just before 11 p.m. Friday night. Police say a man was with a group of people in a parking lot at the corner of Main and Prairie streets in Elkhart when he was shot in the leg. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. At this time, police do not know who shot the man. His name has not been released.

ELKHART -- The Mike Anderson Auto Group's used car supercenter is in its second month of operation in Elkhart. The company opened what it calls a supercenter at 1750 W. Beardsley in Elkhart in January and employs 16 full-time people. The property used to house the Car and Truck Store. Mike Anderson Auto Group recently purchased land next to the property so that it can boost its stock to 130 vehicles. It also will add a service center in the next three months, said Eddie Rodriguez, general manager.

ELKHART - Colbert Packaging Corp. will close a manufacturing plant in Louisville, Ky., and move much of the work to its factory at 1511 W. Lusher Ave. The company said Wednesday it will cease operations in Louisville in 60 days. Many of the 35 employees will be offered the opportunity to apply for positions in Elkhart or other Colbert operations in Lake Forest, Ill. The decision was made because the company has room at its other plants and it wanted to “streamline operations to meet the increasing demand from customers for cost containment,” said Jim Hamilton, president of Colbert Packaging in a release.